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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1907. 



POPE MANUFACTURING CO.'S AFFAIRS. 



During the past month the creditors of the Pope Manufac- 

 turing Co., the assignment of which was reported in our issue 

 of September i (page 386), have been busy investigating the con- 

 dition of the company, with that of the subsidiary, The Pope 

 Motor Car Co., with results thus far satisfactory. A committee 

 of creditors has been formed, under the chairmanship of George 

 A. Yule, of the Badger Brass Manufacturing Co., of Kenosha, 

 Wisconsin. Meetings have been held in Chicago and elsewhere, 

 and it is reported that, after conferences with Mr. Albert L. Pope, 

 receiver for the two companies named, an agreement has been 

 reached to the effect that the business is to be continued and that 

 no action is to be taken by the creditors before November i, if at 

 all. The committee had the idea at first of securing the appoint- 

 ment of co-receivers to work with Mr. Pope, but were convinced 

 by that gentleman that such action might be inadvisable. Should 

 the committee, by November i, favor the appointment of co- 

 receivers, it is understood that Mr. Pope will not oppose their 

 appointment. The business of the companies is being conducted 

 at an apparent profit. A list of the creditors with claims amount- 

 ing to $1,000 or more includes Continental Rubber Works, $2,- 

 677.19; The Fisk Rubber Co., $i,sS7-88; The G & J Tire Co., 

 $5,768.31; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., $1,296.51; The Hart- 

 ford Rubber Works Co., $10,092.88; total, for five rubber com- 

 panies, $21,332.77. 



A LITTLE SWINDLE IN RUBBER. 



An important concern in the rubber trade in New York has 

 received letters from some of the Southern states, the writers 

 of which have purchased from traveling agents the right 

 to sell, within specified territory, certain patented rubber goods, 

 on representation that the goods were made by the New York 

 house referred to. The procedure has been to sell for $200 per 

 county the "rights" under United States patent No. 4^6,042, issued 

 April 22, 1890, to Charles Mudford, of Texarkana, Texas, for 

 "Pads for the backs of horses." This patent seems to have been 

 disposed of to one Josh Kirby, who in July, 1906, appointed W. C. 

 Nicholson and W. M. Longley his "sole agents and attorneys." 

 It is the latter or their representatives, who have been selling 

 "county rights" under the patent. After paying their money the 

 purchasers of such rights seem to have lost sight of the vendors. 

 The patent above mentioned expired on April 22, 1907. The 

 representations with regard to any goods made under it were 

 in every way fraudulent. The peripatetic agents at times made 

 use of a printed circular of the "Southern Pneumatic Rubber Co., 

 manufacturers of collars, pads, mattresses, and buggy cushions. 

 Box 283, Little Rock, Arkansas." A letter sent to this address by 

 The India Rubber World could not be delivered. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



L. E. Waterman Co. (New York) are represented in the 

 Manufactures and Liberal Arts building at the Jamestown ex- 

 position, where they have a booth in which the manufacture of 

 their fountain pens is carried on in full view of the public. 



Southern Rubber Works, No. 146 Jefiferson avenue, Memphis, 

 Tennessee, are running a pneumatic tire repair shop and are 

 agents for the Firestone automobile tires. 



E. Kingdom & Co., of Manaos, Brazil, are successors to Reeks 

 & Aslett in the crude rubber trade in that city, and are repre- 

 sented in New York by Edmund Reeks & Co., No. 117 Pearl 

 street. 



Mr. Thomas Mcllroy, Jr., manager of the Gandy Belting Co. 

 (Baltimore, Maryland), was a passenger on a steamer which 

 sailed on September 12 from Seattle, Wasliington, for the Orient. 



The state charter board of Kansas has granted a charter to 

 The Great Western Rubber Co., at Olathc, mention of which 

 was made in Thf. India Rubber World of September i (page 

 386). The company is capitalized at $200,000, and among the 

 purposes named in the charter is reclaiming rubber by a new 

 process. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Stamford Rubber Supply Co., manufacturers of rubber 

 substitutes, at Stamford, Connecticut, have filed with the authori- 

 ties of that state a certificate of increase of capital, from 100 

 shares of common stock to 200 of preferred and 300 of common, 

 makmg a total of $50,000, par value. The purpose is to cover the 

 cost of the up to date plant which the company were mentioned 

 as intending to build, in The India Rubber World of Septem- 

 ber I (page 387). 



At the annual meeting of the shareholders of The Sweet Tire 

 and Rubber Co. (Batavia, New York), held on August 21, the 

 board of directors was leelected, as follows: Messrs. J. H. Ward, 

 A. W. Caney, Lewis Benedict, A. A. Smith, and G. E. Perrin. 

 The directors after organization reelected the officers, as follows : 

 John H. Ward, president; Ashton W. Caney, vice president; 

 George E. Perrin, secretary and treasurer. 



At the annual meeting of the Flexible Tire Co. (Springfield, 

 Massachusetts), on August 26, the officers were reelected: 

 William G. Marr, president; Dr. James P. Hillard, secretary; and 

 Richard J. Talbot, treasurer. The company was incorporated 

 May 15, 1906, to manufacture an automobile wheel having a sec- 

 tional rubber tread and an inner metal rim containing sockets 

 and sliding spokes or pistons, combined with which is a system 

 of springs at the outer end of the spokes. 



Mr. Eben H. Paine, whose going to London as resident director 

 there of the United States Rubber Co. was mentioned in The 

 India Rubber World July i, 1907 (page 321), appears not to 

 have had an opportunity thus far to get settled in the British 

 metropolis, judging from reports which reach his friends at home 

 of his visits to Barcelona, Athens, and Constantinople, not to 

 mention interior trade centers on the Continent. When last 

 heard from Mr. Paine was leaving for London on another busi- 

 ness tour, to consume five weeks, from which he has not yet 

 returned. 



Tlie Chicago Rubber Shoe Co. has filed with the secretary 

 of state of Illinois a certificate of decrease of capital to a nominal 

 amount, on account of the incorporation (March 15, 1907) of 

 the Chicago Rubber Co., which is doing business at the same 

 location — Nos. 153-159 Franklin street — with E. G. Stearns, presi- 

 dent and treasurer of the first named company, sustaining the 

 same relation to the new corporation. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Dr. William M. Habirshaw, of the India Rubber and Gutta 

 Percha Insulating Co. (New York), whose departure for Europe 

 we reported in June, has returned with his health fully recovered. 



Mr. Elston E. Wadbrook, of the Boston house of Poel & 

 Arnold, returned early in the month from a brief vacation in 

 England. 



Major J. Orton Kerbey, for some years United States consul 

 at Para, where he made a special study of rubber interests, on 

 ivhich he has written at length in consular reports and in the 

 columns of The India Rubber World, has accepted a position 

 m the offices of the International Bureau of the American Repub- 

 lics, at Washington. Major Kerbey has traveled extensively in 

 the South American rubber regions, some of his observations 

 on which are recorded in his book, "The Land of To-morrow." 



Mr. A. R. Duryee, of the Calmon Rublier Works at Hamburg, 

 sent remembrances to his friends in America — where he lived 

 formerly — from Ostseebad, at Dahme in Holstein, where his 

 summer vacation was spent. 



At the annual golf tournament on the Lake Mohawk links, 

 Ulster county. New York, the first prize was won by Augustus 

 O. Bourn, Jr., of Bristol, Rhode Island— score 68; play 18 holes; 

 contestants 16. The second prize was won by W. H. King, of 

 Detroit — score 72. 



Mr. Ben T. Morrison, of L. C. Chase & Co. (Boston), and 

 Mrs. Morrison spent the latter part of the summer visiting 

 London and the principal continental cities. 



